Worst MMO Ever? - Champions of Regnum

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This whole thing felt like an MMO designed by an A.I., like you've told a computer what an MMO is but not why they're fun.
Champions of Regnum is a very, very poor MMO.
Thank you to the supporters on Patreon and Twitch for your continued support of the channels :D

[@missmeeper]

It's interesting that they chose to use grey for their textureless models. Most Devs choose a Pink, Green, checker or other to help them notice when there's a texture issue.

[@hungry_l]

or its intentional. If its textureless, but blends well with surrounding objects (with texture), keep it as it is lol.

[@CrimsonTentacle]

Fun fact - while making an open world MMO (some years ago, never released sadly) our dev team was changing something with the engine and had to run every model in the game through a script. to identify models that the script missed, we set the "wrong model" to be replaced by a bright pink Utah Teapot and then run the game. To this day I regret I havent made any screenshots, cause the post-apocalyptic wasteland peppered with pink teapots in all sizes and positions was absolutely hysterical.

[@Fox_Olive]

@@CrimsonTentacle so how does that work, does all those models and code just go to waste or did you repurpose them for your next games

[@stonefree7973]

@@CrimsonTentacle Is that MMO still in development? Are you making any other games?

[@CrimsonTentacle]

@@Fox_Olive if the project gets cancelled we either try to repurpose, or sometimes the publisher has the rights to get all the code and assets in the project so they decide what to do. In that case the publisher was Gamigo soooo... I think they were trashed xD

[@fatrobin72]

Combat progression... Goblins -> wolves -> skeletons -> werewolves -> tiny ferrets. Yep makes perfect sense...

[@Chaosghoul]

Still more variety than New World

[@autobotstarscream765]

Furret is unstoppable!

[@wallaceluna6241]

@@Chaosghoul Hate to see it lmfao

[@Cramblit]

It's like FFXI. Even at level 80 you'll come across rabbits that are chasing down entire squads of bad ass warriors, samauri's, and mages. 1v8

[@michaelrondon5472]

Missed the wolves>combat tutorial>skeletons lol

[@witherkichian4867]

"You can't just shrink the adult model and be all 'yeah that's a baby.' " Minecraft: *Intense sweating*

[@JamieTotal]

lol.... You're saying that because Minecraft has different models for babies, even Minecraft beats this game. Gotta be a bad game if it gets owned by Minecraft.

[@KazaarTV]

@@JamieTotal wdym "even minecraft"? xD its one of the most successful games ever made

[@swilleh_]

@@JamieTotal "even minecraft" smh

[@holyspectator3830]

Roblox has competition

[@drdabsmore945]

Cyberpunk 2077 children character models. Lmao

[@ThreeArm]

Having played this game for about 2-3 hours, the takeaway vibe I got from it was "This feels like an MMO being played by characters in a movie written, directed, and starring people who have literally never played a video game before in their life, but have seen what other movies think an MMO is, and base their whole shit off that."

[@SmokeyEdits]

you know how they make those "for motion picture use only" dollar bills that look super real until you look at them closer? this game is those, but it's meant to look like WoW from a distance

[@mygetawayart]

What shocks me most is how these games manage to last enough for certain people to be of high enough level to be able to clown on you.

[@metagen77]

Usually they have gamebreaking exploits that makes progress fast

[@jonathansoko1085]

Any game that has heavy p2w is going to have a small whale community. Im in a discord with guys that literally search for these games that they can take over with their wallet. Its an interesting community of people that isnt ever talked about. Most of them are compensating for something in their life, ive done quit a bit of research on them for a paper.

[@marcuspvxea]

@@jonathansoko1085 its an enjoyment to pay $$$$ to get easy fast power and then you just move on when it gets boring. The world of warcraft private server community have had the same called "255 Fun server" where its all basically overpowered shit, but if you donate you get the best items in the game usually better than anything obtainable for like 100$ And majority of the players has the gear for 100$

[@ddis29]

@@marcuspvxea at least one i tried let you design your own equipment

[@Mikeanglo]

@@jonathansoko1085 Jesus that's sad.

[@thecodedshader]

As a Linux gamer myself, I find it disappointing that I've been wasting my time in Star Wars The Old Republic when I could've spent it playing this high quality and immersive MMORPG for Linux.

[@balazsvarga1823]

That face would make Mace Windu flee.

[@netflixlover7977]

Linux champs of regnum xddd?

[@thespider7898]

As a Linux gamer, I too have put a lot of hours into SWTOR, but lately I'm more into Guild Wars 2 & Warframe. Im glad Linux gaming is better than it used to be.

[@robertlee2092]

I’m a Linux gamer and ESO works great on Steam Proton.

[@tackogronday]

Lynux

[@nelgatha6640]

"you could have the character hold up a news paper with eye holes cut out." I would... - love.- to see that in a game as a comedic version of stealth xD

[@Wanettepoems]

Same here, same here indeed.

[@tabularasa5148]

i used to play some tbh run of the mill moba, but one thing i will say is it had fun with tropes. the cyborg fox ninja (i did say run of the mill) had an ability that iirc, let him hop under a cardboard box and walk around. stealthed him from enemies and gave him some other bonus.

[@somerandomgamer8504]

I am the spy

[@TheReZisTLust]

In the family guy game Brian puts a lamp cover on him

[@McDonaldWilliamT]

Ah yes. The Ork Kommando option.

[@CrimsonSlug]

Executive: Build a MMO Developer: What will it be about? What will you do in the game? What visual style do you want? Executive: I told you MMO, MMO and MMO

[@loturzelrestaurant]

Thought for Food, uhm, i mean: Food for Thoughts! Whatever it's called, here: I point out 2 seperate facts: -KZbin has easy-to-find Racism, Bullying and p0rn, as well as masses of spam-bots. -KZbin has a Report-Button and it works.

[@jamesonm.7925]

AKA: Amazons New World

[@loturzelrestaurant]

@@jamesonm.7925 Learning never ends, duh! So may i recommend some Science-Channel or just Education-Channel in General? ?

[@zephyr8072]

It's the same way with Destiny clones. Executive: "Make Destiny!" Developer: "But there's already Destiny, what if." Executive: "Make Destiny! Destiny! Destiny! BUT DO NOT TALK ABOUT DESTINY." Developer: "You want us to make a game exactly like Destiny in every way but we can't ever talk about it or even mention it?" Executive : "Exactly. Also we want it done in 6 months. Go!"

[@ComicAdrian]

@@jamesonm.7925 To be fair there aren't many mmos like New World out there. However i agree that some parts of it, especially the quests and enemies feel incredibly generic. Entenburg (a german youtuber) compared it to a piranha bytes rpg

[@hjalfi]

The mysterious noises, BTW, sound like the kind of pure white noise you get when you play back a misencoded sample --- like it's actually an MP3 but someone told the game it was a WAV. Given the general level of quality here that might actually be the case.

[@jazlyn1298]

But it also kinda sounds like those hand dryers they have in public restrooms, so maybe its on purpose to remind you to wash your hands? It would fit the setting :]

[@TheKarishi]

Another possibility is noise-stacking, where it starts to load the wind background noise, fails, tries again, fails, (first attempt starts to retry), tries again, fails, (second attempt starts to retry), and then all attempts succeed at once giving you this bedlam which is actually just normal background noise that's stacked on itself slightly out-of-sync. It's not super likely but I have seen it happen before.

[@flamefierce998]

I thought white noise was supposed to be calming. Then again it could just be my paranoia

[@drakkenmensch]

It reminded me of trying to play a .ogg video back in 2005 when most video players had no drivers for ogg vorbis files.

[@JustHereForTheDialogue]

Dang you just taught me something super useful. Thx chief.

[@Arekkusu666]

17:53 I like how the ghost NPC is more invisible than your character model is when you drink an invisibility potion. They clearly know how to do translucent models, yet didn't feel it was necessary for the player. Nope, that's too important, better save it for an NPC.

[@TheEldritchGod]

"A game with no textures. What a bold move." - Josh, 2021

[@drdabsmore945]

Yes, he DID say that. We even heard it ourselves.

[@TheEldritchGod]

@@drdabsmore945 - No. YOU heard that. You'd be surprised how many people just glance over the comments before deciding if they are going to watch the whole video. I know I do.

[@RonstoOSRS]

I know you like to mention "quit moments" the 12:40 falling into water, lack of collision, and dying to fall damage only to respawn at the VERY start. THAT is 100% a quit moment. Even if I'm already invested in the game, thats generally a "log off and try again" moment at very best.

[@fnglert]

"The game cannot decide if I need to do a go talk to someone quest or a go kill x quest so it just combined them" "Go talk to five wolves." .... I'd play that.

[@deficit06]

You won an internet point today XDD😂😂

[@stupidAgeverificatio]

So yeah. I was chasing this pig and it made it into this shelter of thick straw, pretty solid construction, and I used my breath power to destroy it. Then I was hunting this other pig and it ran into a wood shelter and I used my breath power to destroy that. But the third pig oh man, it built it's house out of bricks and my breath weapon didn't work on that. Big sad.

[@rolfs2165]

Someone tell Callum to put that in Nightmare World. :D

[@Sagitta62]

is that how you kill them by talking to them?

[@aguy3953]

@@Sagitta62 by annoying them to death

[@ericb3157]

"you could have had the character hold up a newspaper with eye holes cut out" reminds me of Team Fortress 2. when a Spy puts on a disguise, to look like someone on the other team, to his teammates it looks like he has just put on a crude mask with a picture of a face. to the OTHER team he looks genuine, complete with a fake name above his head!

[@just1luckyguy229]

Thats one of my favourite gigs in the game. The other is the little nameplates of your body parts on the death screen, its was so random when i first played. "Heres your liver" XD

[@ericb3157]

@@just1luckyguy229 huh? oh, right, if your character gets blown to pieces by a rocket or a grenade.

[@Wanettepoems]

I felt a genuine bit of joy thinking of a newspaper with eye holes cut out as a real game disguise. Now, I await the day I shall find it ^_^

[@eviljoel]

I'm glad you explained TF2 for us, it's such an obscure game that nobody's heard about before.

[@loturzelrestaurant]

@@eviljoel Thought for Food, uhm, i mean: Food for Thoughts! Whatever it's called, here: I point out 2 seperate facts: -KZbin has easy-to-find Racism, Bullying and p0rn, as well as masses of spam-bots. -KZbin has a Report-Button and it works.

[@TheDrexxus]

For some reason, this made me think of playing Everquest as a teenager. I remember we used to just form groups with total strangers, sit in one location, and kill enemies as they spawned. And we'd do it for hours on end. You could even leave the group to go do something else and come back hours later and rejoin with some of the same people still in it, and others having rotated out. No adventuring. No questing. Just camping one spawn and killing things as they respawn. All for experience to level up. I can't imagine why I ever did it, I could certainly never bring myself to do something like that ever again.

[@robrfoster]

Something about the graphics and text boxes made me think they somehow stole some assets from EQ2, or at least copied them

[@goldiegray4828]

many many mmos copied artstyles/approaches from each other in that same time period: Metin2, DAOC, EQ, Flyff, Silkroad, COnquer Online, Drakensang etc etc

[@MarimeGui]

From my experience on working on a sound engine in the past, these loud noises right after loading might be related to the game trying to play a sound cue at a specific position in the world, without knowing the position of the player (the sound engine hasn't caught up yet). In this case, the engine does not know how loud it should play this sound, so it just defaults to 100% volume, blasting sound directly to your ears.

[@ww6372]

More teams need to set the default to 25%

[@AuxCart]

"You have to sit after nearly every fight to heal during the early levels." Wow, classic MUD flashbacks!

[@patrickmcpartland1398]

Classic Everquest vibes for me.... don't know why, buy project 1999 still sucks me in lol

[@bloodlustshiva1]

Early days FFXI.. fighting one enemy that the game told you was "even match" could mean certain death if you didn't know what you were doing.

[@chaotixthefox]

@@bloodlustshiva1 Sounds like it was correct, near death difficulty is pretty evenly matched.

[@darokdeed]

@@chaotixthefox you got a point there

[@bloodlustshiva1]

@@chaotixthefox Right, but it said that regardless of what gear you had, it only took into consideration your level. So even match with scrub tier gear meant death pretty much all the time, vs somebody who had the best stuff and some skill could face roll them. Hence the "even match" not making much sense. Also, at higher levels, some enemies that showed as "easy prey" could nearly insta kill you.

[@GDragonoido]

This game was my first mmo ever, i played it when i was 12 more or less, at that time it was called Regnum Online only, it was free with just cosmetic shop. 2 years later they introduced the loot boxes and the game start going down, every high lvl player had very broken items, and it was imposible to play. Also, at one time the max lvl was 50, but with an update, the max lvl became 60 and the company forced you to pay exp scrolls because the last 5 or 3 lvls were imposible to reach. I played during 6 o 7 years and i quit. Once upon a time, was a funny game

[@triploshadow]

How could you have wasted so much time in what looks like to be a game's design graduate project when MMO's such as wow were on the market?? Even playing on a private server seams better than wasting time on that garbage.

[@Cochmazh]

@@triploshadow not everyone likes wow. wow also have a sub, this game was free.

[@roxxliveracing2039]

Yeah i plyed this game for Hours open end as well. unfortuetly it is one of theese games that only gets Good Endgame and we have not seen it in this Video so it is a bit misrepresentive but true at the same time. Given that it went through 3 Companies allready. One of them was GAMIGO should sound familliar. it was a good F2P game back in its Day , but today its just didnt went with time and stayed static. And the Single....yes 1 Developer works on the game. So updates or new Stuff do just does not exist.

[@ardenorcrush649]

@@triploshadow This game is *very* old (almost prehistoric internet era) and when it released it was free and 95% of the community were school students from Argentina just chatting in the spawn points. It was like the Club Penguin of Argentina.

[@ROCKNROLL947]

@@triploshadow lol, actually the combat in this one is the same as WoW, haha. There were and are way better MMOs than WoW.

[@Discipleofthedarkone]

I love how buying the premium currency is the same experience as when you go to a bar and try to order a drink. One time I was at a fucking Applebees and I asked what the price was for a drink and the waiter just raised his eyebrows and then laughed in my face. Thats pretty much the feeling I get seeing that cash shop screen.

[@BJGvideos]

Good lord. I'd ask to see the manager. I know doing so has a bad reputation but there are situations where it really is merited.

[@roymustang87]

@@BJGvideos ok Karen

[@ElysetheEevee]

@@BJGvideos I would've also. I've worked way too many customer service positions go accept peers acting shitty, honestly. I tend to treat customer service people with more respect than the majority of people, so if I'm being polite and someone did that, the pleasantries are over. It's sad that meme-state takeover has shit on absolutely ANYBODY asking for manager in proper situations now thanks to the Karen population, though. Sometimes people just aren't cut out for customer service of any kind and need a push to find other work. I know entry-level work can be limited, but there are usually still other options to work toward.

[@BJGvideos]

@@ElysetheEevee Bah, the whole "karen" thing is gross anyway. Anyone who uses a common name as an insult is being a jackass (and before anyone says anything, "dick" as an insult comes from a different origin than the name).

[@thisisrex1676]

@@roymustang87 Sir, Reddit is to your left. This is KZbin.

[@vineveer4358]

"This is a game made without love." I think it looks like a game made by a tired student's college project. So, yes. I agree.

[@frann949]

take a time to try the game i was playing every day since 2 years on isolation, the comunity its so nice

[@cenciende9401]

Couldn't disagree more with that. If someone is going through the trouble of spending years of their life studying video game development then they sure as hell have passion for it. Iron Pineapple has played many student projects in his steam souls-like dumpster diving series of videos and had a great time in plenty of them despite the expected jank.

[@_Bruno_Cesar_]

it has one of the most interesting open world pvp's but the leveling is intentionally made painfull... You end up getting to the point of having to kill 250 monsters in the open pvp area where you are ganked all the time just to get 80% of a level

[@EmiFolkMusic]

This is a game from my country, Argentina, and the only MMO we had made natively for Linux like a decade ago. It was such a joy to be able to play a game with friends on Linux back in the day and made in South America. Gaming on Linux was not that easy like today back then and we had very shitty hardware. We used to play Regnum with our laptops (with Ubuntu installed) at highschool and university during lunch break. Is really funny to see this review, I remember it better than this, but definitely the joy we had didn't let us see how many bugs it had. Anyway, I do remember it crashing a lot.

[@DDantohi]

Pregunta seria: Lo jugaban en las Sarmiento?

[@EmiFolkMusic]

@@DDantohi Perdon, no entendí la pregunta :P Si te referis a las netbook del gobierno, no. Yo hablaba de cuando hice el secundario y los primeros años de Licenciatura en Informatica, año 2007 a 2010. Los que pudimos comprarnos una notebook para estudiar en la facu, salian carisimas y llegamos a comprar unas notebook mas o menos, como para programar, y no se bancaban ningun juego. Y las teniamos con Ubuntu o alguna distro de Linux la mayoria.

[@VampiricVik]

I'm Argentinian and never heard of this game, I feel blessed

[@EmiFolkMusic]

@@VampiricVik you are indeed, hahaha. It's really bad, specially for today standards.

[@joejo4549]

Thanks for the comment is always interesting to hear an old player perspective

[@mrr0r508]

Nothing bad could come of this.

[@shaungreenwood4808]

or good. Well outside Josh's humor.

[@moogleking]

lol

[@Xioungshou]

this game was my first MMO way back in the day. It is an Argentinian game and back then all of the global players played on the same server as the spanish speakers. Made mixed language pickup groups to hunt down ppl in pvp as a hunter. Good times. Made lifelong friends in that game. Left when the game started to monetize.

[@T61APL89]

9:54 i love this bit, that little animated portrait feature is not only unnecessary but its so lazily done that its jarring to see out the corner of your eye. its like making a really shitty cake and trying to hide the taste with a bucket of cheap icing on top

[@randomsandwichian]

So this is where all the Dobbies go when they're free.

[@Reac2]

2:57 Heroic Strike on Warrior in WoW Classic... The worst ability in the game, especially because it manages to convince you it's worth using, but it's not. Every auto attack generates Rage, your main resource, but heroic strike empowers your next meele hit with some damage. Doesn't sound too bad, but then you realize that the ability COSTS rage and prevents the empowered meele attack from generating any , meaning it technically costs more than it states and you're better off doing literally anything else.

[@Assywalker]

biggest noob trap ability off this class for sure, especially as a tank. you are literally better off going into def stance, using shield block and use revenge, ones you have blocked an attack. HS is somewhat ok, if you are dual wielding, though. since it increases you hit chance of the main hand attack by 19%.

[@Assywalker]

@ye or maybe nah It is actually not that much aggro and most of the time you do not have enough rage to spam sunder armor and heroic strike, so 90% of the time you are better off not pressing that button ever. In a raid, sure, spam away :)

[@gasttros]

First time playing a Warrior in a classic server, thanks for the advice!

[@DoAGoldeneye]

It's okay if a) you have literally no other skill to spend your rage on (first part of the game) or b) you are going to hit the rage cap and all your other rage spenders are on cooldown (the last part of the game). So for 60 levels long it's utterly useless.

[@deenman23]

tehnicaly correct,but in practice its all kinda moot,as when you are low lvl there is nothing besides rend to spend rage on,the class was simply poorly designed same as paladin,they shine later but the lower lvls were just otrocious for both

[@leolehmann1589]

I shit myself when I saw my post on 14:45

[@TDM0802]

Actually started playing this game in 2008 and still play it a few times every month😅 it was HUGE back then. There were several Servers, which were packed. World Boss fights and pvp fights at the Forts were huge and made my Game Crash from time to time. Really had a great time, when the Game had a bigger Playerbase. The game changed a lot over the years. Around 2010 when the Level Cap was 50, the best Armor you could buy was from a Vendor (no pay to win). If you don’t want to spawn at the beginning, every time you die, you have to interact with the columns which you can find in every City

[@magical571]

oh hello there fellow player. this is exactly what i remember. i left this comment above "This looks just like a failed attempt at updating/exporting regnum online. Which was an awesome argentinian 1v1v1 mmo back in 2007, fully focused on the three way pvp and fully in spanish so you could meet local friends there even before league had a latin server. I can see here though, it did not transfer well onto other years or regions, that's nothing at all how it used to look, or feel to play." I made so many friends on here, and what you said is totally true, back then just the hairstyles and coloring your armor/tunic was what premium currency served for. And the "Chewbacca" race was the one from alsius, those tiny lamais did not exist (they look super out of place in this game, gotta say) if you will (had a lvl 50 conjurer of said race). And battling for the castles at the war zone was fun (among other things of course). Played on Alsius since i liked snow, felt the player number difference back then lol, could be a little hard to beat syrtis in the war zone. Oh And if you were a good hunter who gave unaware souls out there a scare, your name was remembered lol. Anyhow, a different game, look and feel from what is shown in the video.

[@MicrofusionCat]

I remember playing Regnum Online back in ... 2007? The graphics and combat mechanics doesn't look like it's changed since. Physics hitbox were so terrible you'd occasionally get stuck and need to click on the "Die" button to respawn. It was fun back then because the only other MMO I knew was WoW which I couldn't afford. Also yes, it was one of the very few MMOs playable on Linux back then. Until Steam Proton came out I would dual-boot Windows and Linux because options used to be quite limited. Everyone was really friendly there and the Realm vs Realm mechanics was amazing. It was basically base capture which eventually unlocks the gates to the enemy's inner realm, where it turns into a capture the flag sort of game. That meant coordination and different guilds would hold different forts. Or you could join the mindless zerg mass that oftentimes form and overrun a fort. And then because it was three realms you could cooperate with the third realm only to backstab them (or be backstabed). But eventually with the level grind and discovering better games I moved on to greener pastures. Surprised it's still running, although all those technical issues is a sign it isn't quite running. PS if I recall correctly those white stone pillars with blue flames you've walked past a few times are respawn points you can attune to so you don't need to walk all the way from the start. It's probably a tutorial fault!

[@triploshadow]

There were many mmo's at that time that were better than this crap lol. Id rather be playing wow private server than that dump

[@belstar1128]

Why not runescape? (i am not sure if it works on linux)

[@MicrofusionCat]

@@belstar1128 Yeah RuneScape ran native on Linux, it was alright, but just as grindy back then *campfire spamming flashbacks*

[@magical571]

The looks have difinetly changed. and those lamais did not exist, so they look out of place

[@magical571]

@@triploshadow You didn't experience the game how it was back then, so no, you are basing your opinion on a video that presents an incomplete and flawed picture with a satiric tone for funsies.

[@Ametisti]

Judging by the hitboxes on those stairs... I have a future as a map designer! Sure, I've only messed about with Hammer for a few hours and barely knew what I was doing, but that doesn't seem to be a problem.

[@Otakumanu]

At least with hammer the brushes double as the collision, so you will never run into that issue.

[@Ametisti]

@@Otakumanu Oh! That's true, I hadn't thought of that.

[@werderlork9056]

The whole AI painting allegory has aged remarkably well, huh

[@rosalinaposalina]

exactly what i was thinking!

[@vitaliykormov1266]

And guess what? He is 100% on point

[@Gravewhisper]

To be fair: NPCs wandering off causing quest windows to close happened to me in WoW Shadowlands a lot! There's even merchants that can wonder out of the tiny area where their window is active, closing the trade window.

[@clayxros576]

That probably speaks more to how far WoW has fallen

[@niklasstahl98]

@@clayxros576 That happened far more often in old WoW...

[@jonathansoko1085]

"Choose your Realm and engage in the most dynamic player driven battlefield available on any MMO." Josh read this on the steam page and at that moment he knew what the next week of his life would be dedicated to.

[@Dwarfurious]

That definitely didnt age well! But for its time its 3 way World vs World was quite good.

[@jonathansoko1085]

@@Dwarfurious not sure what youre trying to say but it aged perfectly, the games crap that was the point

[@dusjjdjdjdjdj180]

Regnum online was actually a decent MMO back in the day. Very PvP oriented and unique RvR combat.

[@clayxros576]

As someone who played back then, I'm inclined to disagree. The grind was identically bad, one realm could snowball once they win once, and all the underlebeled players suffer when the towers get captured.

[@FiendMatadorSlayerOfNoobs]

"What do you think pressing TAB does?" Me "It crashes the game!" "It turns off the UI" Me "Dear gods, that's almost as bad."

[@Mr.Pallanza]

0:51 get to character creation and... Character on screen: 👁👄👁 Josh, probably: 👁👄👁 Me: 👁👄👁

[@Konpekikaminari]

I remember Josh once describing a game as that fake game shown in a movie or on TV when they don't want to portray a real game This game feels exactly like that to me

[@larrymantic2635]

That game was Inferna

[@mrr0r508]

You do not recognize the bodies in the water.

[@patrickrepkes4084]

I think the loud sounds are because, when making a game in an engine like unity, you place audio players (source) in the world. These audio players can be made to play sound within distance, or global. What i think happened is that they put every audio player (source) at global position 0, 0, 0. You when spawning in are also placed at 0, 0, 0 and because you are so close to the audio player, the sounds are really loud. your position is then loaded and you are teleported to the location that was saved on the server.

[@B-...]

"You can't just shrink the adult model and be all "yeah that's a baby" Everquest: Josh, you've ruined your own lands, you will not ruin mine!

[@Vesdus]

This game feels like a lazy satire of MMOs. It introduces you to a crashing grey hellscape with disjointed hitboxes only to die immediately in the tutorial and then be thrown on to a high-level PVP island and get murdered there.

[@ardenorcrush649]

This is an old game from my country, Argentina. I played it years ago, even got to max level with a Barbarian. The game itself, it's a pretty shitty barebones WoW clone. But it was fun having a community from your own country back in the day, when MMOs were all the rage. It's been over 15 years, but I still remember many players from Alsius (blue kingdom). Drailord, Quiara, Sranko, Carpo, Oscaoburio... May your gentle virtual souls rest in peace.

[@goldiegray4828]

[@r.g.c.3897]

Actually the original game "regnum Online " was not a "WoW clone" it was an improved (at least as far as skills were concerned) Dark Age of Camelot clone.

[@oicmorez4129]

To the game's defense at 5:00 You've done combat already, yes, but it's unlikely you've met a red-named enemy at that point, since it's still the beginning. I agree that it's quite far into the beginning of the game, but it's an information you didn't really need beforehand. I think it's a decent decision to have it appear later, to not stress the player with too much information they don't immediately need

[@lordflunder]

then again, meeting some combat instructor who explains you the very basics of combat mechanics would fit better at the very start of a game, maybe together with the general controls and important qol-things like attuning to respawn-points and such. its literally tutorial-stuff you should be tought before or while coming across those things, not after.

[@CathalMcCrowley0013]

19:20 Not only was it a loud random sound reminiscent of TV static from the 90's, but it only came out of one headphone for some reason. Incredible.

[@lairizzle]

I played this before it became Champions of Regnum for probably 2 years. It was actually a lot of fun. Close tight community and constant RvR combat. Simple loop of capping forts but it was a great time to be honest.

[@Sovvyy]

Your humour has me in stitches at times... the analogies are just so articulate, yet obscure. I have no idea how you come up with them.

[@Lowcon]

I found you from a 2020 post I think and that list of patrons is just growing fantastically

[@ersetzbar.]

12:01 is such a quit moment, great that you included that clip :D

[@HowBigistheMap]

I played the game. I really liked the atmosphere of the game world. It has more soul than New World.

[@CommanderOfTheSun]

Looks like World of Warcraft if it was created by Tommy Wiseau

[@rudyrodouin9963]

🤣🤣

[@OnlyInhuman90]

Who the fuck is that

[@bilbobaggins5938]

@@OnlyInhuman90 The producer, director, writer and star of the Room.

[@OnlyInhuman90]

@@bilbobaggins5938 no clue what the room is

[@notrod5341]

@@OnlyInhuman90 Its widely considered one of the worst movies of all time

[@Sasaroly]

I played this game years ago when it was called Regnum. An Argentine game made by a small studio, a flawed work of love. Then they got bought by some company or another and the already so-so game went downhill faster than a cheese wheel

[@NatsumiMichi]

Another game that gives me the "Ah! This is like something created in MMO Tycoon!" kinda vibes. Happens with almost every single MMO in this series. Like, I finally understand why MMOT is the way it is, the devs absolutely nailed it.

[@Yezu666]

I played this when it was called Regnum Online over 10 years ago. Tried to play last week, wouldn't even start. Judging by this video, the only thing that did change over that time, is that the cash shop is even worse. I do play on Linux, and thankfully there are much better options nowadays like Albion Online (which runs natively) or Guild Wars 2 (which runs fine through Proton).

[@Marco_Onyxheart]

Or just play WoW, I guess. Also works in WINE last time I checked. Which admittedly is a long time ago. I don't like MMOs actually.

[@borkguy]

@@Marco_Onyxheart but then you have to play WoW.

[@lairizzle]

I also played at this time. Ignis!

[@rafaelbordoni516]

We would be lost without Proton and Wine, wouldn't we?

[@belstar1128]

Does runescape work on linux i always wondered if it would work.

[@Maggerama]

Just trying to imagine how messy these meshes and collisions look from the map designer's perspective gives me a headache.

[@wowomah6194]

Gotta say, AT LEAST the ships sway with the water...I play ESO and have played GW1, GW2, and various other games and none of the boats in those games seem actually buoyant, they're just...statically there. I would love it if the big ships in ESO at various docks actually were slightly animated to appear they were actually in water...

[@LeoRedThunder]

Interesting, i see you have Florensia on your desktop! really looking forward for that episode

[@hjalfi]

Don't trust anything Bred says --- he's taking money from the goblins. He needs the dough.

[@johndaniels404]

Waiting for the Patreon level that comes with a free Josh Strife Hays branded magnifying glass to find your name lol.

[@binaryburnout3d]

16:45 reminded me of that quest in wow, where you hid behind a carboard tree to spy on some one. XD

[@KhaiRs]

I was here on 15k subs! Love your channel bro keep going 🙌🏼

[@Killboyy-kx2bo]

I think having the skill replace the auto attack is a good concept. More realism in a sense where you are choosing what attack to make. Though it should be designed well so that you can use consecutive skills properly.

[@Mrrshal]

I think one can imagine that you can't make consecutive spells because you are in melee combat, so you HAVE to at least defend yourself in between casts. I actually like this from outside view (never played the game).

[@AngDavies]

Think the bigger problem is the fact that you can't make two seperate abilities in a row- you have to do at least one autoatfack between abilities, which just feels clunky

[@fus132]

The Chronicles of Spellborn had a combat system like this actually, also dead mmo.

[@Nirual86]

its not without merit, per se. But the system still needs to allow you do more than one action every 3 seconds. Have skills that boost the next auto-attack in some way, but also have skills that don't behave that way, or make the auto-attacks faster.

[@AngDavies]

@@Nirual86 the autoattacks being faster would probably make this system feel worse . Having abilities that are next autoattack is fine, having abilities that are global cooldown is also fine. Having abilities that are both simultaneously is the problem here- use an ability- have to wait for global cooldown to use the next one...but by the time that's up, I've already taken a swing and have missed my opportunity and have to wait again for my swing timer to reset, so you can only use an ability every second swing which feels slow as molasses. Those abilities are already balanced around the fact that they can only be done once per swing, putting them on the global cooldown as well is silly.

[@noobminatorTBNK]

11:58 He tried to warn us

[@agathish]

I found this this game years back as I had just a linux box and this was one of the only f2p game that was supported on linux. Graphics was on par with other mmos of the time. 15 years back. I had a lot of fun with an awesome community as part of a clan called Ghosts in Ignis realm. It has one of the best RvRvR for sure. After I got unplayable ping, I went to Guildwars 2 for the WvW and found my perfect game :)

[@TRemIk42]

I played that game with my two friends when we where 14 i think ^^ jump was not in the game yet but yeh there was no scummy show it was just this questing and leveling experience ^^ as if you are stuck killing bores :). But the best part about the game was the unscaled pvp. Cause outside your save zone (the tutorial basically), you had the good quest but also other Players. And by looking at their name’s color you knew to run or to stand around menacingly. And then there where the Real fights ^^ best experience ever! You run with 40~80 people into the other factions Base and try to steal their Crystal. But you have no mount ^^ cause mounts are only for lvl 50 players. Those where crazy weekends! It’s a bummer that this game turned into this :/.

[@magical571]

La zona de guerra! Alsius aquí

[@strikestorm]

This video is hands down the funniest one you’ve done. The script was hilarious, and the game dreadful. The only I Robot reference not being an AI one, after so many AI analogies, you nailed it. I think you should immortalize your little goblin/cat man somehow. Maybe a little figure or artwork.

[@qetup5359]

I wish this game wasn't so shamelessly garbage, i've been addicted to it since before I even started highschool. life goes on and my unhealthy obsession continues to grow stronger. Thanks for pointing out how useful the Die button is!! you're a life model

[@BionicmanJCD]

Uninstall it.

[@qetup5359]

no ❤️

[@ardenorcrush649]

Don't get me wrong, I loved Regnum back in the day and its brain-dead simplicity has a relaxing charm, I won't deny it, but if you ever get bored, check some other classic MMO like Guild Wars 2. GW2 was released around 2012 (when Regnum released in Steam) and has different "realms" and a constant warzone too but also dynamic public pve events that make the game feel much more alive, a better campaign and a lot more of character options. I highly recommend.

[@madelaki]

@@ardenorcrush649 GW2 has pretty shit graphics itself, I find their art style horrid, plus it's only slightly less dead than CoR (NGE is actually hiring new devs unlike Anet which mostly loses them) and the combat is super floaty and unexciting despite all the fancy animations. I bought it and both xpacs, only played a couple dozen hours then quit for good. The game is bad at the core. Plus most people that play it are either trailer trash, SJWs, furries, groomers or the mentally ill.

[@Mooki_14]

"The whole village screams OK" Rammus likes it.

[@natecw4164]

6:38 Nice Fight Club reference! :)

[@funkyfox2041]

Wild thing that still gets to me (as much as I like it): FF14 has that exact "combat does not unmount/there is no mounted combat" design problem. Of everything it does *right*...

[@ladyarmourlapras]

i prefer the "combat does not unmount" thing personally, it helps when navigating through the land without getting dismounted when something aggressive so much as looks at you the "mounted combat" thing would be cool though

[@Spectere]

@@ladyarmourlapras I think Funkyfox is looking for something more akin to WoW's mount system rather than kicking the player off of their mount when an enemy pulls. In WoW you can transition directly from travel to combat by simply clicking an enemy and using an ability. The game will automatically dismount you when you choose to engage. In FFXIV you have to explicitly tell the game to dismount before you can do anything, adding an extra step to something people do fairly often.

[@Nirual86]

@@Spectere I mean it does automatically dismount you when you talk to most NPCs or enter a zone where you can't mount.

[@jackb936]

@@Nirual86 And when you die. It's a nice touch!

[@Spectere]

@@Nirual86 Sure, and that's a good feature. It keeps people from parking giant mounts on top of NPCs like they do in WoW. 😑 That doesn't help with transitioning from travel to combat, though. If anything it just makes the omission of that feature even more vexing. It's not a huge deal, but it still seems strange to me.

[@Fluffykeith]

"It looks like piss" Well, to be fair...... So does the whole GAME....

[@bleukreuz]

13:27 "Baby version of things look different to the adult version of things! You can't just shrink the adult model and be all 'yeah, that's a baby!'" *_World of Warcraft has left the chat_*

[@adfluffy]

I love the creepy blinking in the corner throughout the video

[@estefaniac.1011]

The UI of this game gives me really strong Aion vibes.

[@TomasxJK]

Ah yes another random MMORPG that I used to check out as a child when I got bored in WoW.

[@martinelpapu6315]

This game has been in decline since 2012, the only thing that saves it is its PvP system, I can say that it is the best PvP system of all the MMOs in the world

[@madelaki]

@@martinelpapu6315 In decline? They hired new devs two years in a row...

[@martinelpapu6315]

@@madelaki Entre 2007 a 2013 jugaba muchisima más gente , había muchas veces más de 5.000 jugadores en línea en el servidor RA , a día de hoy habrá 300 como máximo.

[@scotch4890]

12:19 the crew of the enterprise said the same thing about Data’s artistic endeavors but I found them quite moving.

[@chris94kennedy]

Hey JSH I love your stuff :) Just a thought though ( as as fellow avid rs player) runecoins are exactly the type of predatory nonsense you said you'd quit Champions of Regnum for (though admittedly they're really only for cosmetics and extra bank space in rs3)

[@aldoregnum]

to be honest we all just play the game because of nostalgia and the friends we got to know inside the game for many years, its a small comunity with now just only one server left but we still love champions of regnum the game actually is fun in the endgame when youre done farming your Warmaster and Champion Gear and you also dont have to pay2win the items from the shop they are just for lazy people but i can understand and see all your points. sadly you need many experience to get trough the starting phase

[@planewreckfanclub5808]

Let's give him a lvl 60? 🦐🐢

[@goldiegray4828]

Aww Aldo i love your videos

[@mcbick962]

@@planewreckfanclub5808 U need to Level one Charakter to Level 60 to buy this role. If you have done this once or twice, u'll ne Happy to buy one of These lvl 60 roles.

[@planewreckfanclub5808]

@@mcbick962, I will gift him mine

[@sii2420]

garbage game lol stay in 2005 son

[@willheis8113]

Where do you keep finding these????

[@benanderson2046]

Ive learned through MMO'S that Tab is actually an acronym that stands for "Target A Baddie" I need this skill in real life

[@jaymindmusic7397]

Nice review 😂 Did you also cover Requiem Desiderium Mortis yet?

[@poom4535]

When the goblin hit so hard the game crash Just a basic balancing so the player can't reach end game in 1 day

[@ejnaygfantzcg]

4:00 To be fair in WoW Classic there a like 10 objects in the Stormwind auction house and half of them is floating in the air... So yeah, incredibly lazy devs can be found everywhere.

[@BionicmanJCD]

There are floating chairs near the Stormshield Stormwind Portal in WoD. They are impossible to miss and there since WoD launch.

[@atocc]

lol that spectral tiger pet at 5:55 looks straight ripped from WoW at first glance

[@EpilepticBob]

Me seeing any snowy bio zone. “That’s not Dun Morogh”

[@Samulisami]

They should rename this game to "Champions of Rectum"

[@amadour2549]

Because clearly the game is "ass"

[@mandykarevicius9746]

The mount runs faster than diarrhea.

[@kiofea]

*Josh* : "...using a skill doesn't immediately use the skill..." *Me, a WoW Veteran* : "That's an ability queue system... IT'S OLD HEROIC STRIKE!!!"

[@Sarkwer]

5:30 yap that's definetly a wolf :D

[@aureliaaurita6498]

Pressing Tab to hide the UI is common to the Sims games, if I remember correctly. It makes sense for taking screenshots. However, in an MMO there are many more important things than taking screenshots even though I like having an unimportant key assigned to hiding the UI.

[@scatterthewinds3126]

The end game rvrvr is I think still unmatched by any modern mmo. No one really kills mobs to grind, you level up through exp from rvr kills. It's not a pve game. Mobs are just there to get accustomed to the abilities or test damage. Animation is simple but serve important function because it is really important to be able to see what buffs/abilities are on players.

[@moonikaillisson]

If you really want to play a game that genuinely chose to not add texture, try Horse Isle 3 (its technically an mmo)

[@Ranos17]

The newspaper with holes in it is a brilliant idea

[@BlueFlameWolf]

Would love to see you do one on the mmorpg “Istaria”. You can play a dragon :p

[@keoniskylines5707]

Oh my god, thank you so much for this video! I have been waiting so long to see my first MMO ever on this channel. I started playing in its early stage back in 2007 up until about 4 or 5 years ago (with long breaks). Regnum Online was owned by Gamigo in Europe, so no wonder it didn't get any better - we had to wait months for bugfixes and barely any new content was added over the years. There were two major "expansions", Warmasters and Champions of Regnum. The novelties included updated graphics and world (in 2010 or so), level cap raised from 50 to 60, some new armor sets for level 60, here and there some new mounts (mostly cash shop) and PvP battlegrounds that nobody played because it destroyed the game's sole purpose: the RvR combat in the center of the world map. The game is a single frustrating grind and the leveling is the worst I have ever experienced. Why did I play this game for so long? Because of my friends that played this game, the clan we joined and had heaps of fun with and the genuine RvR fights for glory, but definitely not for its well designed gameplay. Looking back, I almost feel bad for enjoying Regnum, but it was the first MMO I played and I thought this was the norm. To the people thinking about playing this game: Don't do it! Let it die. If you're into RvR, play Elder Scrolls Online. It has RvR like Regnum, but 1000% better.

[@93beren]

You described my same exact experience, played from beta till Warmasters, they way they literally made everyone grind from 50 to 60 without even a quest and then introduced the 500% exp boost was a slap in the face, specially since you needed more exp from 50 to 60 than from 1 to 50 LMAO That expansion literally killed the game everyone in my clan stopped playing I had no reason to log in any more.

[@madelaki]

I wouldn't say ESO is better. I like Regnum's RvR the most. I tried ESO and GW2 but found them lacking.

[@PenguinDT]

The thumbnail alone is enough for this video to gain a spot the history books. That, or 'cursedimages', I sometimes confuse the two.

[@ZorotheGallade]

"You can't just shrink the whole model and say "yeah, that's a baby" (Activating third camera mode in the intro of Fallout 3 be like)

[@markknape4343]

For those who can put up with the failures in this game and yet still bear to play it are 'Champions of Regnum,' indeed.

[@darknessknouva5921]

Can't wait for the Swords Of Legends Online episode. This one is a cheap knockoff p2w heap. Your character looks like the pre-alpha alpha of a Biomutants character.

[@robertschnobert9090]

12:10 a robot creating soulless paintings? That's ridiculous... Haha 🌈

[@martinl8706]

Fun thing dialog boxes in wow are also a distance base thing XD

[@KatieGimple]

Oh I remember playing this game: it was my first mmo. Back then it wasn't identified as a threat by my antivirus.